Re: [PATCH 2/3] arm64: dts: ti: k3-j721e-main.dtsi: Add DSS node

From: Jyri Sarha
Date: Mon Apr 27 2020 - 07:10:35 EST


On 27/04/2020 13:51, Tomi Valkeinen wrote:
> On 27/04/2020 13:37, Jyri Sarha wrote:
>> On 27/04/2020 13:09, Tero Kristo wrote:
>>>> +ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ status = "disabled";
>>>
>>> Again, why disabled by default?
>>>
>>
>> tidss device is not functional without a defined video-port. The driver
>> is not implemented in a way that it would handle a broken configuration
>> gracefully.
>
> Then we need to fix it. The driver should handle the case where there
> are no ports defined just fine.
>

Just by reading the code, I would say that currently the probe would
fail with returned -ENOMEM after calling drm_vblank_init() with zero CRTCs.

So should the probe fail gracefully and silently, or should we try to
register a DRM device with no CRTCs? Is that even possible?

BR,
Jyri


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